Re: Slide

["D rH" <the.31st@gmail.com>]

Ramiro,

That sounds awesome. Do you have mp3's to listen to? :)

 

David

 

On 6/15/06, Ramiro Musotto <ramirose@ism.com.br> wrote:

You said berimbau .
That's my main instrument .
I do live looping with a lot of berimbaus playing together at
different pitches .
regards
Ramiro

>   At one tme I did graduate work in ethnomusicaolgy ,and my area of
>focus was the African roots of American music. The Diddey Bow,is not
>a slide  it's  single string  streched taught on a stick( or
>sometimes attached to the side of a building) and played
>percussively.It's called berimbau in brazil and there are many
>variations all over Africa,commonly adding a gourd resonator,which
>can be closed and opened by pressing against ,and moving from the
>body,causing a dynamic and pitch variation  further which adds
>rythmic epressiveness.Hugh Tracy's book on southern African
>instruments details one version which is ony played by Women ,who
>move the gourd on and off a breast.The only instrument I ever heard
>of that could physically only be played by one gender.  There are
>also versions where the string is connected to a very large stick
>which is rooted into the ground and a hole in the ground resonates
>the vibration.